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CHESTER CITY (IM)
SJ4066SW WATERGATE STREET AND ROW
595-1/3/404 The Watergate
28/07/55
(Formerly Listed as:
The Watergate)
GV I
Archway through City Wall on site of medieval gate. 1788-90.
By Joseph Turner. For Chester City Council who had bought the
sergeantry of the gate from the Earl of Derby in 1778. Red
sandstone ashlar. The basket arch has a ring of short
rusticated voussoirs; the wings are rusticated below simple,
slightly projecting imposts; turned stone balusters to
parapets of the wall walk, with pedimented central panel, an
intermediate panel to each side and a parapet above each wing
finished with a panelled abutment. A postern south of the main
arch has a brick barrel vault. The drinking fountain, now dry,
fixed to the north abutment is dated 1857.
(Bartholomew City Guides: Harris B: Chester: Edinburgh: 1979-:
97-98; Clerk to Chester City Corporation Assembly: Assembly
Book: 1788-1790: AB5 F.F.11 & 22).